English Vocabulary Organiser Sport 49. Other sports 1 Basic vocabulary Match the sports with the pictures: swimming horse racing 6. % oy cycling motor racing, 2 Sportsmen and women Fill in the missing words in the table: show jumping gymnastics weightlifting The sport Lovee 2. swimming 3. skiing 4. Steere 6. athleties 7. motor racing 8. cycling 9. . 10. the pentathlon Vee eer 12. rowing 13. 606 14, weightlifting yachtsman sky diver climber 104 skating _ice hockey char 3 What's the sport? Match the following commentary extracts with one of the sports from exercise 2, The words and phrases in green will help you to decide. 1. What an amazing fight! Lewis has won with a knock-out in the tenth round. 2, They’re coming to the final fence now and the favourite Pink Gin is still in the lead. 3. Schumacher is off the track. He was trying to pass Hill, then he lost control of the car and that’s the race over for him. 4, The next big race is the 800 metres, in which Sarah Gates represents Great Britain. $. The women’s downhill starts at ten and the men’s slalom event follows at two o'clock. 6. And so Wescott wins the 100 metres freestyle 10 add to his victories in the breast-stroke, the backstroke and the butterfly. 7. After his performance on the rings, he'll be hoping for something better on the horse. 8. It looks like tomorrow’s race is off. The forecast is for a force 8 gale!4 Athletics Sport English Vocabulary Organiser There are two types of athletics event: track events are all those which take place on the running track; all other events, except the marathon, are field events. Match these events with the pictures: the hurdles the javelin the discus the shor-put the high jump the long jump The event when you have to hop, step and jump is called the triple jump A sprint isa short race ~ 100 metres, for example. The 800, 1500, and 3000 metre races are middle- distance events. A long-distance race is 5000 metres or more. 5 Boxing Complete this newspaper report of a boxing match with these words and phrases: first round on points right hand — knock-out bell title heavyweight corner LEWIS RETAINS TITLE HThe world .. champion, Lennox HLewis, successfully defended his... against American Evander Hollyfield tast night. Right from the very start Lewis had :Hollyfield in trouble and at the end of the . Hollyfield was clearly very Jised to get back to his ‘The - went for the second round and Lewis immediately knocked his ‘opponent down with a huge and it seemed only a matter of time before Lewis would win by a. But [Holyfield recovered and as the tight went ‘on he got increasingly stronger, causing the champion serious problems. In the end it |Went the full twelve rounds and Lewis was quite relieved 10 win ‘Add your own words and expressions 6 Fighting sports ‘Answer the questions below about these sports: boxing karace wrestling kick boxing judo 1, Which three sports take place in a ring? 2. In which of the sports do you use gloves? 3. In which of the sports can you become a black-belt? 4. In which of the sports do you throw your opponent? Do you know which sports the following sportsmen and women were famous for? Carl Lewis beeeee Martina Navratilova Ayrton Senna 105